Next-Generation Training over the World Wide Web

Education and training are multi-billion dollar concerns: the U.S. Department of Defense’s shrinking budgets and increasingly diverse missions dictate that knowledge can be imparted in a far more effective manner than is currently available. Networkbased training and intelligent tutoring mechanisms address not only these concerns, but also accommodate the militaries increasingly dispersed, reserve personnel. This paper presents our work on developing authoring tools and materials for intelligent tutoring systems. This paper is organized in the following manner. First, we present the training domain and the motivations for developing our tools. Next, we present an architectural overview of the system. We then delve into findings of developing the system and some results of experimenting with the system. Finally, we illustrate the future directions of our work.